Impossible = I’m Possible (Cajun Joke), Sunday Selections, and Sunday Selfie

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Just because Sandee of Comedy Plus is no longer hosting a Silly Sunday blog hop, do not expect me to quit telling Cajun jokes, especially as it has now become a habit.

Grandma is back to being able to walk down the hall a bit, but it's getting harder and harder and she really doesn't want to do it.  I've offered to change the bed for her "hospital style" (with the person still in the bed, it can be done) when she says, "I don't want to get up!"  She refuses each time i offer, and gets up anyway, but i'm not sure how much longer she'll be able to do it.

Clothile done be tellin' Grand-mère Boudreaux, "I knows me how to change de bedsheet wit'out you havin' get out de bed if'n you need me to, since I knows you's feeling bad."

Boudreaux done overhear an' say, "Change de sheet wit' de person in de bed?  If'n dat don' be impossible, den nothin' be impossible!"

An' Clothile say, "It can be done, I done did it befo' I marry you when I be's de nurse assist at de hospital, an mais! don' you be tellin' me nothin' is impossible when you do nothin' all day long!"

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Sunday Selections was started as a way for bloggers to use photos that might otherwise just languish in their files.  The rules have been relaxed, and it is now simply a showcase for your photos, new or old, good or bad, although nothing rude, please.  Our friend River is hosting, and other participants often include Charlotte/Mother Owl, Andrew, and WiseWebWoman.  

This week saw almost no new pictures of interest, so i dipped into past photos.

Angel Quadpod SissyCat (The Charismatic Enigma SissyCat), watching through her favorite window.

Angel Dansig the Round teaching a foster kitten the fine art of drinking from a gravity waterer.

Feeding turtles with Becca and Mr. Cal.

One of our sunsets across from the house.

Tripod SissyCat, lounging on the front porch.

A "good fence."

Little Girl loved to carve pumpkins.

Coda dog with the red collar, her brother in blue.  They were such small tykes.

Angel Mikey.  For reference, my shoe size is US7.

Butterfly in Mr. BA's garden.

Riley, the pastor's dog, trained to do hospital and nursing home visits, joins us at prayer group.

Little Girl is always very creative, especially at Halloween.

A wrought iron gate hangs as an outdoor art piece at church.

Foster Kitten sitting on my iPad.

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This week, Cookie wants to join the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head for their Sunday Selfies Blog Hop with her, "I need my favorite toys with me" selfie.  

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Today is:

Bicycle Race Day -- anniversary of what is supposed to have been the first bicycle race ever, at the Parc de Saint-Cloud, Paris, in 1868

Dia de Castilla-La Mancha -- Castile-La Mancha, Spain

Doha Document for Peace in Darfur Commemoration -- Sudan

Feast of the Visitation of Mary -- Christianity (Mary's visit of her cousin Elizabeth, chronicled in Luke 1:39-56)

Full Moon -- the second full moon of this month, called a "Blue Moon" by many, although it is not the 4th full moon of a quarter, the old definition of the term

Lord Buddha's Parinirvana -- Bhutan

"Make My Day" Day -- birth anniversary of Clint Eastwood

Mother's Day -- Algeria; Cameroon; Dominican Republic; France; French Antilles; Haiti; Madagascar; Mali; Mauritius; Morocco; Niger; Senegal; Sweden; Tunisia

National Macaroon Day

National Smile Day -- US (but it's okay to wear your best smile anywhere!)

Royal Brunei Malay Regiment Day / Royal Brunei Armed Forces Day -- Brunei

Save Your Hearing Day -- because once it is gone, you will regret it; on the anniversary of the concert by The Who which set a Guiness World Record for loudest rock concert in 1976

Speak in Complete Sentences Day -- be a good example!

St. Petronilla's Day (Patron of mountain travelers; against fever)

Take This Job and Shove It Day -- birth anniversary of Johnny Paycheck

Trinity Sunday -- Western Christians; related observance

     Procession of the Golden Chariot and the Battle of Lumecon -- Mons, Belgium (a horse-drawn coach carrying the relics of St. Waudry circles the town to commemorate the delivery of Mons from plague in 1349, and in the afternoon, the Fraternity of St. George reenact the Battle, with St. George defeating the dragon)

What You Think Upon Grows Day -- Stephanie West Allen wants you to remember the power of positive thinking

Whit Sunday / Pentecost / Trinity Sunday-- Orthodox Churches

World No Tobacco Day -- WHO 

World Parrot Day

Birthdays Today:

Jonathan Tucker, 1982

Colin Farrell, 1976

Phil Keoghan, 1967

Brooke Shields, 1965

Lea Thompson, 1961

Chris Elliot, 1960

Roma Maffia, 1958

Kyle Secor, 1958

Gregory Harrison, 1950

Tom Berenger, 1950

John Bonham, 1948

Sharon Gless, 1943

Joe Namath, 1943

Johnny Paycheck, 1941

Terry Waite, 1939

Peter Yarrow, 1938

Clint Eastwood, 1930

Patricia Roberts Harris, 1924

Prince Rainier of Monaco, 1923

Denholm Elliott, 1922

Don Ameche, 1908

Norman Vincent Peale, 1898

Fred Allen, 1894

Walt Whitman, 1819

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Survivor"(TV), 2000

"Seinfeld"(TV), 1990

"Beatlemania"(Musical), 1977

Today in History:

Rameses II (The Great) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, BC1279

A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000, 526

Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans, 1223

Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary, 1669

The Godiva procession through Coventry begins, 1678

The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions, 1759

In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains, 1813

In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, 1866

Dr James Moore of the UK wins the first recorded bicycle race, a 2k velocipede race at Parc de St Cloud, Paris, 1868

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents corn flakes, 1884

Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria, 1884

Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1889

The Union of South Africa (predecessor of the Republic of South Africa) is created, 1910

The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles, 1927

A 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan, 1931

The Republic of South Africa is created, 1961

The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide  that buries the town of Yungay, Peru, 1970

In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30, 1971

The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Muppets' first foray into the world of feature length motion pictures, is released, 1979

The burning of Jaffna Library, Sri Lanka, is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century, 1981

Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead, 1985

Athena 98.4 FM, the first legal private radio station in Greece, starts broadcasting, 1987

Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, 2005

Asteroid 1998 QE2, an asteroid measuring nearly 1.7 miles across, and its moon, pass within 3.6 million miles of the earth, 2013

The Danish government bans garments that cover the face, including the niqab and burqa, 2018

China's ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates, 2021

Archaeologists announce the discovery of 100 cuneiform tablets in a Bronze Age city unearthed on the Tigris River, Iraq due to drought, 2022

The first open meeting of the NASA panel investigating unidentified flying objects highlights the stigma involved in reporting sightings and lack of high-quality data, 2023

After years of broods emerging in smaller areas at different times, trillions of periodical cicadas (Magicicada) emerge together in the US for the first time in 221 years, 2024